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alienation

[ayl-yuh-nay-shuhn, ay-lee-uh-] / ˌeɪl jəˈneɪ ʃən, ˌeɪ li ə- /


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Feelings of alienation have long ebbed and flowed in Alberta, a traditionally conservative province, home to the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Now one of their own had become mayor, and some Jewish New Yorkers were experiencing a sense of alienation that she recognized.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Vladimir Tikhonov, Korean Studies professor at the University of Oslo, told AFP Guryong "symbolises the alienation of the urban poor from the mainstream of South Korean society".

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Instead of odes to the old cabin home in the mountains or the little church in the wildwood, Busby sang about the loneliness and alienation of life in the nation’s capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

It was 1996 and Brown had been reading Katherine Dunn’s strange, evocative novel Geek Love, talking about it in class, pointing out the enthusiastic alienation of its characters.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Events of every description, changes, alienations, removals, – all, all must be comprised in it; and oblivion of the past – how natural, how certain too!

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2021

John David Washington’s performance in BlacKkKlansman is impressive but the film’s quasi-Brechtian alienations and comic cartoonery arguably mean that it is more difficult to engage with his character emotionally.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2019

All the train of alienations, suspicions, earthly passions, which exist in our minds and are sure to issue in quarrels or bad blood, will be put down if we have 'salt in ourselves.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

To drink a tea made from saffron, foretells that you will have quarrels and alienations in your family.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller

The Formula of Concord was the cause of the most bitter controversies, dissensions, and alienations.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente


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